Dear Brock Turner,
You were a Stanford athlete, your swim times were incredible, and you more than likely thought you were the shit. Now you are never allowed to step foot on Stanford's campus, you have to register to be a sex offender, and you were sentenced a whopping 6 months in jail. You were released on "good behavior" after 3 months.
3 months
You are a staple of what's wrong with America's Justice System. The judge thought that Jail would have a "severe impact" on you. The woman you senselessly raped? You impacted her life, forever. To you, raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster wasn't a big deal. Your father, who wrote an antagonistic letter to the judge said "His life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve. That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life."
The woman who was used as rag doll for your 20 minuets of action, what about her? I have thought about this woman many times, I have tried to put myself in her shoes and I am utterly revolted. The feeling of people justifying your actions, and blaming her for her choice to go out and drink. It is not her fault she was sexually assaulted.
So now, as women (or men), we aren't allowed to leave our houses, or we will be sexually assaulted. We can't have drinks with friends, take a walk outside, get off work late, wearing whatever the hell we want to wear, and we sure as hell can't say "no". Because if we do any of those things, it justifies the actions of the monsters like you.
You deserved the full 14 years you were originally faced, and more. You deserved to pay for what you did. The judge, Aaron Persky, needs to be reprimanded, and your repulsive father should've been your bunk mate. You got off easy, and I know that this isn't uncommon. Justice needs to be served, a slap on the wrist for taking advantage of another human being in the most disgusting way, is wrong. This isn't just to you, Brock. This goes out to all of the less than men, who get away with robbing a woman of her worth, intimacy, confidence, and privacy.
Your case is the prime example of why women who are raped, don't report it. Why would they when they don't get a voice? If they're intoxicated and can't remember, it's although it didn't happen. This needs to end, all rapes should be reported and your pathetic excuse for sentencing shouldn't scare those of not speaking up.
Brock, I hope one day you will experience what your victim has, the feeling of being powerless to your own trauma. I hope you know, as a 20 year old woman myself, I will not give up the fight to put vile rapists like you away. We will fight for her, and for all of the other victims that aren't treated like they matter.
From,
Katelyn
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